Little Ann And Other Poems..
Bound in original cream glazed pictorial boards with olive green spine and corners. Slight wear to extremities and some darkening of boards; endpapers browned, otherwise a good clean copy.
£50.00
Publisher
Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., London and New York.,
Date
[c.1925].
Synopsis
By jane and ann taylor. illustrated by kate greenaway.
Item Description
8vo. 6 x 9.25 inches. 64 pp. Illustrated by colour printed hand-engraved wood blocks in text, plus frontispiece and verso of title; pictorial half title, dedication and contents page.
Notes
The book illustrates verses by Jane (1783-1824) and Ann Taylor (1782-1866) and was first printed in 1882, for publication in 1883. Catherine (Kate) Greenaway (1846-1901) was the daughter of a London wood engraver and spent twelve years of art college education in the city. Her work was greatly influenced by her childhood holidays in the Nottinghamshire countryside and she chose a vaguely Regency style of costume for her figures. Her first book illustration was published in 1867, but she did not achieve widespread recognition until Edmund Evans (1826-1901) printed her illustrated book of verses, Under the Window, in 1879. It sold 100,000 copies in her lifetime. Becoming an artistic celebrity she came under the influence of the ageing John Ruskin who greatly admired her female figures. Along with Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway is ranked as one of the three great illustrators of Victorian children's books and her work remains in print today.
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